Mindf**k: Artist Updates Vintage Ads With Modern Day Celebrities

For the past year, Paris-based art director David Redon has been contributing a few hours a week to a unique hobby: Photoshopping modern celebrities into vintage advertisements. “I like the shift between vintage and modern pop culture," he says, "because these days the border between art and commercial is very small, and artists work their images like brands do." Redon's handiwork lets us see what it might look like for Don Draper to design an ad campaign starring Pharrell, Beyonce, or Daft Punk. Click through to check out a few of Redon's designs that will make you wish "Pharrell's Toothpaste" actually existed. [Design Taxi]

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